Before becoming president, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, and he was then elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Illinois: he won that election in 2004.
If you are asking what position he held before being elected president, he was elected a state senator in Illinois in 1996, and in 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Joe Biden has never been president. He was a senator before he became vice-president.
Barack Obama. Before him it was Richard M Nixon.
This question was asked before the 2008 election. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama did in fact get elected America's 44th president. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
He still keeps a house in Chicago which was his residence before he was elected president.
Before he became president, he was a US Senator from Illinois.
He was a US Senator from Illinois when he was elected President. Before that he was in the state legislature , taught law and worked as a community organizer.
Obama was a US Senator from Illinois , elected in 2004, when he ran for President. Before that, he held a seat as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
He did before he was elected President, but now he lives in the White House in Washington, D.C.
He was a United States Senator from Illin
Barack Obama decided to run for president after becoming a US senator. He was elected as a US senator from Illinois in 2004 and announced his candidacy for president in February 2007.